Lectures

Sponsored by the Office of the President, the President’s Speaker Series is a forum that brings eminent leaders to Santa Clara, providing our students, faculty, and the community an opportunity for intellectual rigor, critical thinking, reflection, and dialogue.

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics sponsors the Ethics at Noon lecture series. These lunch-hour programs provide a forum for SCU faculty members and other experts to explore ethical issues in many fields.

Fostering Conscience and Moral Character Through Classroom Teaching

Lecture

A talk by Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology and director, Collaboration for Ethical Education, University of Notre Dame.

Darcia Narvaez is one of the leading scholars in the country on moral education. Her research explores questions of moral cognition, moral development and moral character education. She is author or editor of four award winning books: "Postconventional Moral Thinking"; "Moral Development, Self and Identity"; "Handbook of Moral and Character Education," and "Personality, Self and Identity." She is also editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

We are fortunate to present this program in part through the generosity of the Project on Conscience in Roman Catholic Thought, funded by Phyllis and Mike Shea.